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The NES is my favorite console. The games are fun, look and sound incredible, and I owe my career to it. But only because the Front Loading model was a massive piece of crap.

I first began dabbling with repairs in 2000 when I was nine or ten. My controller stopped working, so I took it apart. My Dad showed me how to clean the contacts, and it worked! Then, a year or two later, I watched my Dad open and attempt to repair one. Nintendo of America's customer service line actually helped him repair two of them. The third, was mine to try to fix.

twenty some-odd years and hundreds of NES repairs later, here I am providing you with this NES repair and maintenance guide. It's focused entirely on the cartridge port. In the future, I'd like to go further in-depth and offer advice on other aspects of the hardware.

If you're thinking about repairing your NES, you may consider replacing the cartridge connector entirely. That's a viable option, but you need to be very careful about what you're installing. Click here for more information. As of now, there's only one replacement that I'd recommend. It's called Nin10-Drawer. The creators have done an incredible job with this thing. Please support their efforts and consider installing one if you feel you need to.

Oh, and this place has a blog now.